April 2024

โ€œIโ€™m the Flowers I Needโ€

by Charity Hamidullah
for
I AM MINE / WE ARE OURS
๐Ÿ“ Arizona & Dekalb Ave

Charity Hamidullah is a multi-disciplinary artist from Rochester, New York currently creating in Atlanta, Georgia. Hamidullah utilizes the power of art to dive deeper into her purpose and connect with others. Charity embraces her vibrant cultural differences and upbringing to create visual narratives that many can relate to. Her colorful pallets are full of emotion, and life; symbolic of the diversity which co-exist in her story. Her work unveils chapters of growth, self-discovery, and empowerment.

โ€œWhen I dream of radical love, I envision a space where people learn to love themselves fully. Accepting all the pieces which make them who they are. Finding lessons of empathy in the journey of their hearts. As one learns to love themselves for whom they are; they in return love one another; a person at a time.

Through abstraction, and intuitive line work a world of exploration and discovery signifies the journeys taken. Whether hard roads, easy slopes or highs at the mountain, paths to loving who we are and others are symbolized and honored with the additions of soft emotion felt portraits. Viewers may not only feel safe, seen and heard, but loved as they reflect upon where they lay at this moment in time.โ€

As one learns to love themselves for whom they are; they in return love one another; a person at a time.
— Charity Hamidullah

Photos by Drew Borders, Jim Stringer
Curated by Drew Borders

Special thanks to Will Rice, Kat Downend, Hugh Trotti, Eileen McClay, Kate Balzer, Jim Stringer, the Organized Neighbors of Edgewood, MARTA Artbound, Columbia Ventures, and District 5 Councilmember Liliana Bakhtiari for their unending support for the arts in this community.